Message text some plane have just their fuel advantage.
What do you think will happen if those planes will lost that "peculiarity" ?
About implementing reality, you said something that make me think, and I'm not agree at all.
planes didn't run out of fuel in combat because they dind't join combats if they were going low.
On the other face, german planes suffered from locked sea commerce embargo, so they had generally smaller fuel-tank than allied.
That means some important conseguences :
-Inferior autonomy (see fokker DVII or DrI, but I think the author give them less fuel because they would be much too stronger than their counterparts, with same of major fuel)
-Airfields more close to the front line, so they will have to fly just 10 minutes from take-off to reach the trenches.
-Defensive tactics : germans used to fly over their territory, or just patrol the front (except recon or bombing missions), while allied fly more often aggressive patrols deep inside enemy land (even with heavy losses, that they could easily replace).
Generally german pilots were equipped with slower planes, but they were quite manouverable.
The ratio of lost in combats were 3:1 (about 27,000 german machines lost compared too 87,000 french-english). I think about 86,990 were recon-bombing planes 
Now, the allied planes in Blue Max have a light (sometimes medium) fuel advantage. I think it respect, finally, WWI flight strategies.
With that you see that I like to discuss about war strategies too  ciao ! |
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